After hearing Zygi's account of his first experience with the corner horns, I am dedicated to either building a house with a room for them, a shed set up specifically for them, or I am simply going to adopt a father with a room for them.I want to hear these things!!!!!!

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Hope the build goes well. By all accounts this should be the loveliest speakers you ever own. Let us know how it goes!

Wild,What application are you making these for?If you are making them for a liveable sized room and you are going to be using them for personal space, I don't think it is optimum to put the 4 5" drivers in the horn. In fact, unless I am mistaken you have already cut the baffle for the 6" in the front?After talking to Zygi this weekend, my impression is that the version that uses the multiple drivers was actually flown like a proffesional line type speaker. Awesome quality when no directional element was needed (I think that sounds right)Anyway, if you are going to be using it in a personal setting, I think you would just want to go for the single driver unit here. I know that you wouldn't put 5 speakers in it if that is what you have on the agenda.I have no idea how many have been built, but I think the plans and the white papers (and from the opinion that Bob gave me) these things need to be in a "somewhat" specific room meaning the knee walls or an opening between them is pretty important.Do you have a picture of where they will be placed? Or are they going to be used for pro sound?Let us know what you got going on there. If I were you, I would definitely give Steve a call with any questions on these.I am curious too though? Has anyone else built these yet?

wild_6_99I have not heard anyone completing these as of yet and your pictures are the closest to a build I have seen.

I would never build them but if you have the room for it they would be a awsome project.I have pretty much read all the data on them and its awsome that you have taken them on to build..I have to add your work is really nice, thanks a bunch for the pics. Your posts are really making my day! :)

im making them for personal use yes....and im making 4 of them so stacking them is a posibility, yes using fostex driver for one...set...and one as a 2 way

ive also made 4 extra baffles with no cutouts case i want to do lil testing as a mtm or somthing like that....or further down the road think id like to try out the 4x 5" application.... but still prety tight to get in 4 drivers without ripping the horn apart.

ill be putting them in room thats 11'7" X13'5" with 8' 6" high ceiling

in the house there is also a 16'x 40' catheral ceiling....but it only has 1 true corner to other is doors and closet, opposite side is a stair case and the kicthen open concept

i could make the knee wall there in the commercial applicationand because the speakers would sit on the 16' wide wall.....dirction of sound might be less crutial

i can take pics latr tonight

ohh im very unfimilar with tube ampscall me a tube virgin if ya like :-/

cause i have not yet heard one and compared

and by the sounds of things i should REALLY get one

but well im gonna have some dinner and head out to the shop and assemble a couple more

Holy smokes!If it were me, I would do the single driver fostex first and then experiment from there to see what you think of the sound. Steve had also mentioned a special speaker for these a while back and judging from what I saw at Zygi's house, I bet it is special just for the horns.I am not sure about the room dimensions. I think that sounds pretty good. I know the white paper says that they need a cutout in between the horns or knee walls to create that effect. As far as how they would sound without that, the only person who could likely answer that is Steve. The accounts I have been given would indicate this is the best sounding design ever though so it might not be all that picky as far as the walls and room, but I sure wish I knew.Where do you live? I might just buy a ticket to take a listen when you get done! ;D

my house wrecker in my sound room, i made it with 1/4x 1/4 solid cherry beading up the sides to stop dents and mdf waffering, base is made from solid cherry as well as the top, veneered cherry of course

well behind that will be the placment of the horns, and a big wall for 12 diffusers 2'x2' gonna be making almost 20 difusars, and 2 bass traps 6" thick pink fiberglass...cause the room is really LIVE , which is not a bad thing somtimes...but gets a lil fatiguing at higher volumes, so i thought id make the horns first and see how they sound...then add diffusars and absorbers

in many papers including the white papers for the corner horns , it says they are 24x24" footprint.....on the other hand my full scale drawing measures square 23 7/8"x 23 5/8" could this just be cause it was hand drawn?

no affence what so ever to Steve(the master himself), just curious weather it was intentional or not.....cause if so ive screwed up, ive made all my layouts on all 8 panels 24"x 24"(its fitin together real nice tho)

i tryed to referance back to where lines meet up and such, i think its just maybe the printing copying process as well... could be many things

somone plz check yours plz and hopfully

come to a good conclusion.

i tryed callin steve a couple times now to no avail, but hes a busy guy im sure

Andy, I do not have the answer to your question but it sure is very kind of you to take photos and walk us through this process. If I had a room that would be a candidate for these horns, they are what I would have.

Hey Andy, Yeah, mine measure the same. I'm guessing it's from hand drawing. I'm also guessing it's why part "V" wasn't the "right" # of degrees in the template. (I made a bunch until I came up with one to match the template; I don't remember what it came out to). I measured the 'print, and found the sides different, and figured it wasn't supposed to be exact, but more of a guide to follow. So I decided to go with the numbers in the white papers. Just divided the angles out, (don't remember off the top of my head what they were either, but they where where the saw had detents, not between half degrees), and cut the top & bottom plates to just under 24". (I made mine out of baltic birch, and left enough thickness to veneer them). (Still haven't) On the internal holes--I cut mine out, and drilled and installed inserts for the smaller drivers in case I wanted to install them later. I talked to Steve about it though, and he said that configuration was just for outdoor use. They are room sensitive. Enough I don't even want to write anything about them yet. I had them in (just over) 13 x 11 x 9 room with an alcove, built to the same dimensions as Steve's reference room, and was expecting great things. I'll just say I learned a lot about the importance of room treatment. After trying my HDTs, and a pair of ML TLs, and both also sounding bad in this room with "great" proportions, it's time to build traps & diffusers before I say anything more. Robert

fitting the compound angle cuts on the "wings" takes a while. the 'print and white paper again serve as more of a rough approximation than an exact template, and the builder has to fit not just compound angles, but to the curves made in the front, (which were probably made by eyeball with a belt sander, not fit with a template either). then four times for each speaker...a frustrating bit of hand fitting to say the least, it may take a while. Robert

[quote author=wild_6_99 link=1162739593/15#22 date=1163371964]plz double check with me on this maybe i got a lemoni have some measuments descrepentcies on mine

in many papers including the white papers, it says 24x24" footprint, my full scale drawing measures 23 7/8"x 23 5/8" could this just be cause it was hand drawn?

i tryed to referance back to where lines meet up and such... [/quote]For really accurate corner horn plans (which truly are flat to 40 Hz, and FR charts are available), you could try Ron Clarke's Austin. The blueprints are dimensioned to .010", and I laid them out that accurately, with a sharp pencil. The lines meet up exactly, to a point in opposite corners. The angles are exact, much easier to build, no unnecessary complications...

in many papers including the white papers for the corner horns , it says they are 24x24" footprint.....on the other hand my full scale drawing measures square 23 7/8"x 23 5/8" could this just be cause it was hand drawn?

no affence what so ever to Steve(the master himself), just curious weather it was intentional or not.....cause if so ive screwed up, ive made all my layouts on all 8 panels 24"x 24"(its fitin together real nice tho)

i tryed to referance back to where lines meet up and such, i think its just maybe the printing copying process as well... could be many things

somone plz check yours plz and hopfully

come to a good conclusion.

i tryed callin steve a couple times now to no avail, but hes a busy guy im sure

cheers Andy

Turns out the blueprint place that made the copies of my original print used machines that distorted the copies. The actual footprint is indeed 24 x 24 inches.

We have moved to a new address with new phone (309) 822 5255 and I no longer need my cell phone (309) 868 9302, so I got rid of it. Best way to contact me is at our new number.

BTW, watching this build is getting ME excited [smiley=bounce.gif] and I'm the one that invented the damn things!

Let me know when your ready for drivers. I modify a Fostex that is so incredible in these speakers it is without question the best single driver speaker I've ever heard... and probably ever will.